Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twice last week, in Washington, President Kennedy called meetings of his Berlin task force to discuss the continued shooting incidents along the Berlin wall. "We get 200 shots a day fired there now," said one State Department official. "In Laos that...
Tension mounted on both sides of the Wall at week's end, as West Berliners planned mammoth rallies to commemorate the anniversary of East Germany's abortive 1953 uprising. When Konrad Adenauer announced that he planned to fly to West Berlin for German Unity Day, as it is called, East Germany protested to the U.S., Britain and France that this would be a "provocative" act. But it was an East German border guard who did most to raise Berlin's blood pressure. When a twelve-year-old East Berlin schoolboy named Wolfgang Gloede approached the barbed wire...
...have broken through the Reformation wall and pioneered in Catholic-Protestant dialogue...
...their research, the British researchers report in the Lancet, they generated musical tones of 500 cycles per second (about an octave above middle C) and 4,000 cycles and transmitted them 'through the abdominal wall of the mother-to-be with an instrument like a telephone receiver. It made no difference whether the mother could hear the tones or not (the investigators tried it both ways). In tests of 290 women, 215 unborn babies responded to the 500-c.p.s. tone with an accelerated heart rate, but only 60 reacted to the screeching tone three octaves higher...
With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...